OpenMP News
»OpenMP 3.0 Specs Now Available
The OpenMP Architecture Revew Board has approved the 3.0 specifications.
The 3.0 draft specifications were out for public review from October thru January. The final 3.0 specs is now available. It corrects a number of typos, clarifies some issues raised during the review period, and contains completed appendicies and lists of examples and implementation-defined features.
»OpenMP 3.0 API Specifications (May 2008) (PDF)
»OpenMP at ISC’08 Dresden
Sessions discussing OpenMP at ISC 08 in Dresden in June:
- Harnessing the Potential of Multicore/Manycore Processors
- MPI has been the prevailing programming interface for parallel computing. With the widespread use of multi/many-core computers, OpenMP will gain in importance. Professor Lutz Gross, the Director of High Performance Computing in the Earth Systems Science Computational Center (ESSCC
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http://www.supercomp.de/isc08/content/e2/e2437/index_eng.html
- Parallel FEM Solvers on Multicore Xeon Clusters: Do We Need OpenMP?
- Prof. Dr. Lutz Gross Director HPC Earth Systems Science Computational Center The University of Queensland, Australia “To write parallel software
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http://www.supercomp.de/isc08/content/e2/e10/e22/e1671/e2931/index_eng.html
»Recent User Forum Posts
»Recent Posts in the General Topics Forum
- Drop of performance for large arrays/matrices
- parallelized for_each
- OPENMP + Mixing FORTRAN and C code
- traverse stl containers in parallel
- how to use “private” ?
- Messages in OpenMP
- default(private)
- OMP ON NEC SX-8
- omp_get_max_threads in parallel region
- Calling functions in parallel For-Loop
»OpenMP in a New Era of Parallelism
New workshop proceedings from Springer to be published soon:
OpenMP in a New Era of Parallelism
4th International Workshop, IWOMP 2008 West Lafayette, IN, USA, May 12-14, 2008, Proceedings
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 5004
Sublibrary: Programming and Software Engineering
Eigenmann, Rudi; Supinski, Bronis R. de (Eds.)
2008, X, 191 p. With online files/update., Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-79560-5
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on OPenMP, IWOMP 2008, held in West Lafayette, IN, USA, in May 2008.
The 16 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote talk and 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected for inlusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on OpenMP overheads and hybrid models; OpenPM for clusters; OpenPM tasking models and extensions, as well as applications, scheduling, and tools.
»S-Lang Interface Package 1.9.4 Supports OpenMP
»SLIRP is a vectorizing code generator aimed primarily at simplifying the process of creating modules for the S-Lang scripting language. It supports making C, C++, and Fortran code callable directly from the S-Lang interpreter and can automatically vectorize functions to take advantage of the abilities of S-Lang. SLIRP can also generate parallelizable wrappers for OpenMP-aware compilers.
»SC07 OpenMP BOF
The SC07 OpenMP BOF was held at the SC07 conference in Reno on November 15, 2007. There were about 70 attendees. Mark Bull of EPCC presented the draft OpenMP 3.0 standard. Marty Itzkowitz presented a modification to the Performance API to reduce overhead for short parallel regions. Both presentations are available on the resources page.
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